Peter Checkland Quotes

#1. I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Patricia Hampl

#2. I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.

Richard Preston

#3. We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.

Ehren Watada

#6. Gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Rae Foley

#7. For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

John Florio

#8. It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Helmut Jahn

#9. It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. What matters is that you're playing.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#10. Never be afraid of the moments
thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Rabindranath Tagore

#11. I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

Mike Birbiglia

#12. More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Joe Murray

#13. Take any job, get started and stop with the video games and pot. I'm not for that.

Dana Perino